Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: People think that impunity is about being taken to The Hague. In Kenya, we commit petty crimes, and we want to operate like: “We know you. You are the son of so- and-so.” That is why crime never ends in this country. When it is punishment, it is meant to be punishment. The root word is “punish”. You are supposed to feel that you have been punished. view
• 27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: I beg to oppose. view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate the Minister for a Bill very well crafted. He performed excellently in the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs and has done it yet again. view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the first time, against all the Bills that we have looked at in this House, I have seen a Bill that very well mainstreamed the issues of human rights, children rights, women’s rights, rights of persons with disabilities and rights of the marginalized through regional representation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to just laud this Bill because it professionalizes the teaching profession. For example, if you look at the process of recruiting the commissioners, vetting body and even teachers, it is through a very competitive and open process. I want to laud the ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would want to encourage the Minister to listen. Hon. Musila is distracting him, yet I would like him to note the issue of moral or immoral description. One of the things that you have indicated, if you actually look at it from a legal perspective, is misleading. It says that one of the immoral behaviour includes, but is not restricted to sexual intercourse. What you are basically doing here is saying that any person engaging in sexual intercourse, meaning husbands and wives, shall not qualify to be teachers. So, please, if you can consider correcting ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Bill and congratulate the Minister for bringing it. view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) this is one of the Bills that we had flagged off for purposes of the implementation of the Constitution. Therefore, I want to congratulate the Minister and urge other Minister to hasten the Bills that are within the two years span, so that we do not get into a crisis or put into a rush dealing with the Bills at midnight, and then we are forced to recant the things that we have said, when we are either too sleepy to notice or too rushed. I raised that issue ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: I want to encourage the Leader of Government Business to bring us Bills in good time. We do not want to be the laughing stock of this country. We seem to be passing Bills whose contents we have no idea of. I am not raising this just because the President has refused to assent to Sections of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. I raised it last week that we look like we are doing things we do not know and, for sure, we look like we did things that we had no clue of. Members were coming out of ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, having said that, I just want to raise some issues that I have noticed. First, I want to laud the Minister for entrenching the issue of openness and competitiveness in this Bill, and also including the private and public sectors in those jobs. I have noticed in the past that there are very good jobs that are advertised and, kind of, just left open for the public sector and not the private sector. Yet, we have many Kenyans in the private sector who have very brilliant brains. So, that is very good. That is also to ... view
• 26 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would also want to comment on the issue of the removal of the secretary or any commissioner from office. I would want to urge the Minister to borrow the language, with modification, of the Teachers Service Commission Bill that we have just looked at. One of the things that he should look at is the issue of making reference to the Sexual Offenses Act and persons with disability in the Public Service Bill. These deal primarily with employment in the public service. Therefore, the issue of sexual harassment is likely to be more pronounced here ... view